>>120629442What is the demand this time? We've already had upwards of 6 threads since Thursday (and that's only counting the threads I was able to see). Is that not enough for all those discussions, webms, edits, and ____ best girl? The only reason I see for this thread's creation is literally there in the OP, "Old Shirobako thread bit the dust." There's nothing meaningful about it anymore.

>>120633090>season 2 starts 8 years later>Aoi has a boyfriend>Shizuka is married>Diesel-chan is engaged>Ema worrying about her low wages and the horrible fact she is now Christmas cake.>Misa is asexualOnly sells 1.8 FRTs worth of BDs.

>>120633508>three episodesStill pretty good.If you're being rough about it, then you could say that would equate to 12.75k sales for a standard 2-episode volume. Unless I'm missing something important.

>>120633568Does Zuka dye her hair as well?The reason I'm not sure about Aoi is because most of them have non-ethnic-Japanese eye colors as well, so it's safe to assume that their unnatural hair could in fact be natural.

>>120633607I don't think there's artificial hair color. With the large variety of colors of hair in the show, it is more than likely just a means to help tell the characters a part. Imagine if everyone had either black or brown hair, placing names with faces would be impossible then.

>>120633094It is going to be PA #2 when it is all said a done.The only reason why it is at 8.5k is due to the stock problem, they didnt print enough copies. It is ranking better than everything this season. You might be looking at GuP mk2.

>>120634173Hahaha, serves you right you faggot. You're the little girl in the bottom right corner down there trembling before the mighty ritual of the divine. Now submit beneath the dominance your god has over you and go watch the damn series.

>>120635585>>120635569>>120635595I'll take your word for it.The in-your-face "it's okay if this is generic garbage if we admit that it is" jokes, and the twintails girl shouting tittymonster's really long name like it was supposed to be funny, was just too much.Sorry.

>>120635727The show really runs on a single heroine that makes the difference aka main girl. She's the only reason to watch it. There are several reasons for why she works as good as she does but I won't go into detail here.

>>120635855She's barely there in ep1 but ep2 makes her a rare-type best girl already. She's basically there to deconstruct all the other harem stereotypes that sorround her. Most people that still watch it stayed for her. I hated it to hell and beck in ep0.

>>120636116Right, that makes sense. I knew that Aoi's sister put on a voice for the doll once, but I couldn't remember if it was the same voice as the schizo version.I always end up being impressed by seiyuu.

The politeness system of Japanese is characterized by being very fluid. Depending on the participants and the situation, levels of politeness you display towards one person might change drastically.

It's based on social standing, seniority and the dichotomy of "me (us) – you (them)". Generally you're polite to the other party and humble about your party. And who's in what party changes dynamically depending on the situation.

The situation in the last episode basically put up Rinko as one party, and the other three girls (Iguchi, Aoi and Ema) as the other one, cause all there were being tutored by Rinko in the same way. And that's why Iguchi refers to Rinko as "Ogasawara-san", same way as Aoi or Ema would.

When she called her Rinko-han some episodes ago, it likely was in a situation where Iguchi and Rinko both represented one party - senior workers.

That's how's I'd read the situation. Or maybe it's just an oversight...

>>120636566Less cute girls and more fat Korean guys and 75% plastic females 1 in 4 Korean people in Seoul have had plastic surgery, I'd imagine that number is higher for females and for either gender in some industries esp. entertainment

So gothic lolita truly is a chuuni who became one because she didn't have a shoulder to cry on and she's stuck up who makes mistakes herself and she gets off scot free. Well, we'll see how long that lasts.

>>120640560It does happen. Instead of adding to the source material they just make a 1:1 only with terrible art, or add crap like that.

>>120642315Man, I HAD a friend I went to college with but he fell victim to the pony disease in his senior year of college back in 2011. He started to practice a lot of drawing and within the first quarter of 2012 he started to sell commissions of MLP work, which people still paid money with hand over fist even though it wasn't good.

By the end of the year he had gotten experienced enough to just copy the show's art and used "show-accurate" drawings as a selling point, enabling him to sell commissions starting at $40 and up. More if it was colored, with more characters, etc. A fucking con artist.

He started doing livestreams and hawking his wares there, and in two years he was able to start making a living doing the con circuit and was able to rub shoulders with a bunch of the MLP staff, fucking ridiculous. I haven't seen the bastard in a bit thank god but he's a small cripple with leg braces that is a capitalistic shit stain, everything was and still is about money to the fuck. Sounds like a girl too.

>>120642432To add to this, normally this wouldn't be so bad, I mean, artists in 11land do the same thing at Comiket and online, but this guy I"m talking about was a business major all through college, obsessed with making money and successfully doing it through online ads before hand and figured he could make a killing from MLP fans. There's passion there, but it's just passion for money.

>>120642996I've heard many people tell True Tears has something Okada has lost since long ago in her way to write stories. Hanasaku Iroha had it in the very first two episodes and then the episode 3 happened and the rest you know what happens. This isn't particulary bad in my opinion, but I'd love if she or P.A. Works could pull something as True Tears again but this time with adult people and not teen melodrama

>>120643205>HanaIro was okay after episode 3 as well but it just wasn't really going anywhere in the end. Life happened but it wasn't really satisfying in it's ways.There were some pointess episodes but I think the final of Hanasaku Iroha was satisfying because it had relation with the whole theme of the series, basically a coming-of-age story. And the movie, the movie, is great.

>>120643549Of course it was a coming of age series but in the end it didn't look to me as a good one. I wasn't satisfied in the least and didn't have a feeling that the characters actually tried surpassing their parents or learn from them. The whole conclusion was too open and unsatisfying for me. I probably only stuck with it for the animation and because I once worked in a hotel and it triggered my nostalgia.

>>120643644>I probably only stuck with it for the animation and because I once worked in a hotel and it triggered my nostalgia.I think that explains why you felt the ending not so satisfying. And that's a different perspective, something it matters

>>120643901Screw what I wrote there. Those aspects were important to me but I was actually hoping that it would have a conclusion I could respect right up until the end and only in hindsight those were the things that really stuck out to me.

I usually really like coming of age dramas but only if they actually feel like the characters moved on and not just became another failed member of society.

Is everyone who works at Aoi's studio some kind of nutbar? We've got the drawing staff dressing up as anime characters to hide their emotional turmoil, the director is a traumatized divorcee, the desk is a schizo who imagines stuffed animals talking about her line of work all the time, their newbies are an college kid whose way into research, a high lighter wearing information otaku and a layabout whose only here because it's easier on her commute. Then there's the old dust collector they rarely use, the creepy prez who seems to like to yell TAKEOFF at random times and is always cooking their other newbie seems to do nothing but criticize others and is rather rude and finally there's Tarou. What the fuck,Tarou?

>>120644736>Did you happened to watch Koufuku no Graffiti?Yes. I was kinda disappointed in the series as a whole as the fanservice-eating looks really weird to me.

>Could you cook some dishes from the episode 3?Yes. Aside from making a runny omuraisu which I never attempted until last week. Would probably be able to nail it with 1 or 2 more tries. It's really hard to do if you don't cook with gas so I have to improvise a lot there to get the same results.

>>120644777That's completely fine with me I'm also good at cross-dressing

>>120644917>Yes. I was kinda disappointed in the series as a whole as the fanservice-eating looks really weird to me.Me too, but this is supposed to be some kind of pure Slice of Life. Personally I wanted it to have a plot progression or at least the characters not being static but this is what going to happen unless Okada pulls something interesting.

>>120645051I actually really liked the characters. I didn't like the lewd and there wasn't enough actual cooking for me but the SoL part with Kirin was great. It feels like Ryou is growing with every episode along with her and I really love that.>OkadaI haven't forgiven her yet.